How You Can Contribute

How You Can Contribute

Folding@home™ is supported by volunteers who are making a contribution to society. You can contribute to Folding@home™ by providing the computing power of your PS3™ system's Cell/B.E. processor via the Folding@home™ network.

The PS3™ system's Cell/B.E. processor will dramatically add to the computing performance of the Folding@home™ project.

Participation from PS3™ system users will accelerate the understanding of human disease and may eventually lead to cures.

How Folding@home™ on PlayStation®3 Works

1. Download the free Life with PlayStation® application as shown in the following link.
How You Can Download Life with PlayStation®
2. Folding@home™ will automatically download work units from Stanford University's dedicated server while Life with PlayStation® is running.
3. Computation is performed on your PS3™ system.
4. The computation result is automatically uploaded to Stanford University's server.
5. As long as Folding@home™ is running on your PS3™ system, steps 2 through 4 are repeated.

How Folding@home for PS3™ Works